MOTHER’S DAY
Okay, so many, MANY of you have been reaching out to me screaming, “WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH MOTHER’S DAY?!?!?!?”
I have been screaming that exact question for months as well, and I KNOW what is happening with Mother’s Day. (I kid, I kid)
STOP READING: First catch up on the previous blogs:
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My short film ZOMBIE was met with a cold, to lukewarm response… To me that was EXCITING as hell, as all my previous short films where UNWATCHABLE – the mere fact that ANYBODY was able to sit through THIS short film was nothing short of a success on my part…
It was also exciting to me… On a Thursday, I had no short film… On a Sunday I had produced, written, directed, and edited MY OWN short film.
We are winding down here folks, only one more blog to round out the story! Make sure to catch up on what you have missed!
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The phone rang in my shitty studio apartment early in the morning. I saw the caller ID was coming from Twisted Pictures – my immediate reaction was here we go… they are going to back out…
First off, dear readers, let me apologize for not updating my “WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN FILM SCHOOL” Blogs as regularly as I promised… MARK MY WORDS I will update the next one before the weekend is out!!!!
However, I do have something VERY pressing to inform you about. COMIC CON 2010.
Originally I had planned on making this blog FOUR parts… But, after I started writing I realized that there was just too much to say… So I have expanded it into TWO more parts. PART V will be released next week, with a CONCLUSION to follow.
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So after 5 years in Hollywood, countless packages of Ramen Noodles, and many drunken nights of crying myself to sleep, I had a MUSIC VIDEO on MTV, and more importantly I had a REAL producer, who REALLY wanted to make THE DESPERATE, or so I thought.
So, hopefully by now you have read my first two posts. If you have not… STOP READING and do a little catch up.
Okay, up to speed?
So… In a matter of months, I went from folding clothes to securing a lawyer and agents… (somewhere in between I directed the first stage production of the amazing smash hit REPO! The Genetic Opera)
I guess I was ignorant… Some would argue I still am ignorant. But I thought with my lawyer and agents in place my luck had turned, and suddenly people would give me the time of day.
I had hoped that today we would be able to release the first ever trailer of MOTHER’S DAY, but alas, sometimes the world doesn’t move as fast as we want it… My hope is we will have announcements within the next couple of weeks!!! For now, I hope you enjoy a couple of new stills!!!
All great things, must eventually come to an end…
Today is our last ‘official’ mix day on MOTHER’S DAY.
WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN FILM SCHOOL – part 2 / 4
If you are just joining in – Catch up and read PART 1.
Ok, so lets recap.
Dropped out of college – went to film school…
Graduated film school – moved to Los Angeles destined for greatness.
WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN FILM SCHOOL – part 1 / 4
At least once a day I receive a message from a fan asking if I have any advice on how to make it in the film business…
Part of me wants to respond like Rob Zombie did in one of his interviews. During said interview they asked Rob Zombie if he had advice for independent filmmakers. Rob basically said, “QUIT NOW, if you are asking me for advice, you probably can’t hack it…” Rob Zombies advice for filmmakers
I kid… I kid… but not really…
I have tons of fans following me on both sites. However, the majority of the people following me are not REPO! fans, but fans of the SAW franchise, or fans of the fact that they are ‘following’ a director. The other percentage of people are industry friends, various horror sites, reporters, etc…
So excited, today we begin the final stage of MOTHER’S DAY! The DI and Sound Mix.
This week, myself, the DP Joe White, and editor Hunter Via will sit in complete darkness and color correct the movie.
It’s already making such a HUGE difference to the overall mood of the film.
Basically, in DI which stands for Digital Intermediate – which gives us the ability to create looks that were just not possible when shooting the movie. We have more control over color, contrast, saturation, etc…
So – I have had about 10,000 facebook requests asking me if I plan on seeing REPO MEN this weekend.
The answer is simple… YES
This last year has been full of up’s and down’s- tons of drama surrounding trailer similarities, poster similarities, etc…
At times I let ‘drama’ get the best of me…
Help me spread the word, that THIS weekend – it’s time to go back to the OPERA.
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MOTHER’S DAY IS OFFICIALLY PICTURE LOCKED!!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah!
What does this mean? Does it mean the movie is done… No… Not even close.
What this means is the PICTURE is locked in the place. All the edits are now concrete.
Over the weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the ONE YEAR anniversary of the Los Angeles shadow cast of REPO!
As always it was an amazing show – and I was blown away that after a YEAR people are still showing up in masses to see our opera.
A BRIEF LESSON IN HISTORY:
December 7, 1941 – Pearl Harbor was bombed…
July 21, 1969 – The first man walked on the moon…
August 16, 1977 – Elvis Prestley died…
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall fell…
The following year, 1990, Vanilla Ice would release his opus of an album “TO THE EXTREME”
These dates are cold, hard facts… They are history… All one needs to do is go to any library or local search engine and you are provided with pages upon pages, of information commemorating these truths. I call them ‘truths’ as they are undisputed realities, backed up with hundreds, if not thousands of ‘proofs’ surrounding the events.
Mothers Day has been one of the greatest, and toughest challenges as a filmmaker. When I directed SAW 2, Mark Burg, one of the film’s producers, warned me about the amount of characters I had in the script. “It’s gonna be a nightmare to keep track of them all!” I laughed it off, shot the movie, and cried during editing – because he was right. There were a lot of characters – and at times, became a nightmare in post.
For the last 6 years, any time I wanted to blog I used MYSPACE. Even as recently as last month. I knew no one was reading, hell, I am not sure if anyone is even still on myspace – BUT – at the same time I also knew I didn’t really have anything important to say – sans news about REPO showings, and what not.
But NOT TODAY… Today I actually have something to important to say. Important enough that I finally decided to use this webpage I bought some years back…
We spend the first quarter of our life in various learning environments. Preschool – Grade School – Middle school – onto High school… Some of us go onto college and further our learning… Some don’t.
In all of those years of education I spent countless hours learning random things that have NEVER come back to play in my professional life. Yes, I guess you could say that when I dissected that frog in Mr. Beasleys 8th grade Biology class it would help me when constructing the autopsy in SAW IV when we dissected Jigsaw… But a HUGE portion of my higher learning has never come back into play.
So I have an idea I would like to propose… If there are any educators out there reading this, I beg you, I need you, I am enlisting your help… Please help me get a class on Movie etiquette. We need to teach our kids now… Before it’s too late… Math, Social Studies, Science, Movie Etiquette.
Let me explain…
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